[Theory] Natsu is much older then he looks

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First of all let's take a look at this picture from the Dragon King's festival.
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The dragon is breathing fire and the person appears to use fire too more precisely fire dragon slaying magic.
And if you look even more closer, you'll see that this "dragon slayer" has a scarf which look exactly like Natsu's scarf. This was something from a thousand years ago obviously since it's an ancient carving, that dragon appears to be similar to Igneel so here is my theory.

1. The "Dragon Slayer" in the carving is Natsu's parent or dad.

2. It's Natsu.

Why do i think it's Natsu? How can it be Natsu, if you go back to Laxus arc where Freed did the runes that prevent anyone over 80 years and above from leaving the building, you saw how Makarov couldn't get out, that was obvious but then Natsu and Gajeel were left in the building and they couldn't get out aswell.

At first it seemed to have some to do with their dragon slaying magic but looking at the carving this would imply that both Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy are all actually much older than Makarov. All of them being 80+ years old.

But how could this be? If we go back to their background, all we know that they remember is that they were all somewhere apparently abandoned where they were found by dragon's who taught them dragon-slaying magic.

They don't remember anything more from their past nor do they remember their true parents and that is true for all 1st generation dragon-slayers.
Also, they weren't necessarily newborn babies when founded by these dragon's so there is clearly deeper shit going on that i'm sure Hiro will screw up in some way shape or form but this is something i've been thinking about ever since the chapter came out where they showed Igneel again.

I guess i could go little deeper into this but the more i do the less supported it'll be so i will leave it for now. Tell me what you think.
 
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Plus Zeref knows him.

I think the 1st generation dragon slayers were ancient dragon slayers and this is them reborn.
 

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i dont see how this panel makes you think this cuz i think it was just a way to reveal what the games were originally. but the whole point about them being older is very interesting. if you have ever heard of the marvel character iron fist or even the avatars in the last airbender. their spirits are reborn within new people once predeccesor dies. maybe its the same way with each line of dragon slayers. Like natsu has the same spirit as the fire dragon slayer that came before them... the only thing that messes up this theory is that couldnt there be more than one dragon slayer of the same element, since i never saw any rule about dragons only taking on one student

but i agree i think theyre older than they seem
 

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Plus Zeref knows him.

I think the 1st generation dragon slayers were ancient dragon slayers and this is them reborn.
It's pretty obvious that Zeref knows Natsu because he is Igneel and Acnologia is a stronger version Kyuubi.

Kyuubi < Acnologia.

Kyuubi couldn't even destroy a village :sy: when Acnologia destroyed an ISLAND.
Yes an ISLAND!
 
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Then how come he looked like a boy seven years before the beginning of the story?
He may have been reborn in someway and this was some sort of experiment or agreement between him and Igneel, maybe there is some cycle involved where Natsu will eventually turn into a full dragon after reaching a certain point in his development which is needed for Igneel to turn himself into human, perhaps Igneel was the person while Natsu was the dragon at the time and they're both part of some rebirth cycle.
This i got from kingoflightning's video which i don't have anything to really spport it but seem like a pretty logical explanation.
 

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Uhm, no.. the scarf was given to him by igneel so it's not completely illogical that there were dragon slayers before Natsu who also wore that scarf.

He isn't some ancient dragon slayer, he's simply Natsu

With that, your arguments are rendered invalid.
 

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He may have been reborn in someway and this was some sort of experiment or agreement between him and Igneel, maybe there is some cycle involved where Natsu will eventually turn into a full dragon after reaching a certain point in his development which is needed for Igneel to turn himself into human, perhaps Igneel was the person while Natsu was the dragon at the time and they're both part of some rebirth cycle.
This i got from kingoflightning's video which i don't have anything to really spport it but seem like a pretty logical explanation.
Thought I have seen this :)
KOL is awesome :ice:
 

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He may have been reborn in someway and this was some sort of experiment or agreement between him and Igneel, maybe there is some cycle involved where Natsu will eventually turn into a full dragon after reaching a certain point in his development which is needed for Igneel to turn himself into human, perhaps Igneel was the person while Natsu was the dragon at the time and they're both part of some rebirth cycle.
This i got from kingoflightning's video which i don't have anything to really spport it but seem like a pretty logical explanation.
Yes, i´m quoting myself because i just realized, since people's Edolas version is usually different than their Earthland counterpart....the fact that Edolas Grandine is a human would 100% support this theory that Dragon's turn into human's and Dragon slayer's eventually turn into Dragon's or i could've missed something and perhaps Natsu is not a form of dragon, maybe he's just a human that has made a deal in some way because Edolas Natsu ain't a dragon but then again Edolas Natsu couldn't use actual magic himself so that kinda threw him out of the equation.
 

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Well, i do think they were friends in some way, Zeref also said Natsu was the only one who could stop him and Natsu was the only one who survived his dark aura because of his scarf.
Natsu is a former legendary wizard that went through some shit to reduce himself to the Natsu of today.
 
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